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Same conclusions

Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Friday, November 02 2001 @ 08:21 pm EST

I\'ve been doing basically the same comparison for the last month or so. I\'ve downloaded and tested phpWebsite, PHPNuke, PostNuke, MyPHPNuke, Drupal, GeekLog, and others. My evaluations have been based largely on the underlying database schema. I can tell how much thought and planning has gone into the system by looking at the db structure.

On this point, the Nuke forks do not score well. Though it is a Nuke fork, phpWebSite has made great improvmenets in this area, adding subtopic capability among other things. Geeklog does have a nice clean db schema, but it and phpWebsite both still need work in order to be able to scale to a large-content website. In GeekLog, for example, there are no subtopics or subcategories, and the links categories do not even have a correspoding codes table. Right now, it would be difficult for a user to find what they needed on a GeekLog website with 10,000 links and 2,500 articles / news items.

Gererally speaking, though, I have pretty much come to the same conclusion as ezra on the various weblogs. PostNuke is on the verge of going out of control, in my opinion. I looked at a posted modification to allow multiple-level subcategories, and in looking at how the mod was implemented, it was obvious that this was an ill-planned hack, and I wondered what other code was written with this little forethought.

For my needs, if I went with either phpWebSite or GeekLog, I would still need to integrate a full-featured links module such as PHPLinks, into the software. I would also need to use the phpBB plugin for GeekLog. I haven\'t seen it, but the Nuke forks have tried this and it still looks quite kludgy, and the intergration is incomplete at best. So I\'m interested in what the GeekLog community thinks of this plugin.

I\'m close to making a decision soon, and for me it seems to be between GeekLog and phpWebSite. Both appear to be excellent products, but neither will conform to my vision out of the box.

Same conclusions

Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Saturday, November 03 2001 @ 06:10 pm EST

Woohoo - I posted the origional question.
(Hadn't signed up then)
If only it was that weasy to get on the front-page of Slashdot ;)

Anyway...
Persumably if phpBB can be converted to a module for GeekLog then so can phpLinks.

Assuming the phpBB plugin is how I imagine it to be, I think for my uses Geeklog wins. If for no other reason than the community behind it seem organised and agreeable as to the direction in which they are heading.

Unfortunately, my origional community idea has been quashed.. It's amazing how brutal frineds can be when you announce a silly idea ;/ - Now I just need to find a use for a weblog system!

Quick question: Is "full moderation" something that may appear for Geeklog down the line? Perhaps as an option that need only be turned on for larger projects?

well, give phpbb plugin a try

Authored by: Tony on Monday, November 05 2001 @ 08:56 am EST

I have it running at http://www.iowaoutdoors.org/boards/. I'll create a test topic that you can post to.

Yes, the category implementation for everything in GL suxs. I do plan to fix this annoying problem in GL 1.3.1. I will implement it in the DB so that plugins can take advantage of the category system without having to add their own category table. --Tony

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The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.

well, give phpbb plugin a try

Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Monday, November 05 2001 @ 08:38 pm EST

Personally I like the idea of infinite sub-categories:

Computers: Windows 98: Applications: Microsoft Word

if you get my meaning. Kind of like Yahoo.

Same conclusions

Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Friday, November 23 2001 @ 06:15 am EST

Hi @ll,

I never did some testing, but I surfed a lot around the web, to get some impressions about those OpS-CMS-stuff.

I must \"admit\" several Months ago, I decided to take PostNuke (0.60). Why?

1.Because this Burzi-Guy (PHPNuke) really made me sick.
2.IMHO the most \"democratic\" Dev-Team. If someone wants to help - he can.
3.Big community - lot´s of input, lot´s of help
4.At that time (around 4 Month ago) - PostNuke had the nicest Layout around.

BUT: Now I am working with PostNuke, and I must say: It´s more \"Nuke\" than \"Post\". I am primary a Layouter/Designer, not really a Code-Freak.
But to get a clean and unique Layout, you really have to Hack PostNuke like hell -> for ex. to Replace the print.gif (the one, for the link to a printerfriendly Article-Layout) you have to hack 4(!) PHP-Files. And this PHP code is really weird.

So, my question to you: Is there any OPEN-CMS, that are really easy to design? Are they all mixing HTML with PHP?

THX in advance for your help!

Greetz relain

(sry for my rusty english...sigh)

html templates in a weblog

Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Thursday, January 03 2002 @ 01:09 pm EST

phpSlash has html based templates. The layout can be very different from a traditional nuke looking site.

http://www.sf.net/projects/phpslash/

html templates in a weblog

Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Thursday, January 03 2002 @ 01:38 pm EST

Looks like Geeklog 1.3 has moved to phplib templates so my comment was a little out of sync. Good move! You\'ll never look back, the ease of maintenance is so much better when presentation is moved out of the code.

html templates in a weblog

Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Thursday, January 03 2002 @ 01:38 pm EST

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